"I Love Him to Pieces" Review: Booklist (March 15)

The following review appears in the March 15 issue of Booklist:

Booklist – March 15, 2011

I Love Him to Pieces.

By Evonne Tsang. Illus. by Janina Görrissen.

April 2011. 128p. Graphic Universe, paper, $9.95 (9780761370796); lib. ed., $29.27 (9780761360049). 741.5. Gr. 7-10.

"What happens when a baseball player and a goth nerd fall in love? The zombie apocalypse, of course. But jock Dicey is determined that she and Jack will survive—and maybe she’ll even finally get a kiss from him! Tsang and Görrissen’s entry in the new My Boyfriend Is a Monster graphic-novel series cashes in on the current zombie craze, but it does so with style and humor. Dicey and Jack are extremely likable characters—as are the bit players—and their young romance is crafted slowly enough to get readers invested in it. The middle section of the book gets rushed a bit when the zombies start appearing, but the final act, when the two teens try to fight their way out of embattled St. Petersburg, Florida, is scary and gory and exciting but not too bloody for a middle-school audience. Görrissen’s refreshing, black-and-white art gives the story a crisp, modern fell, with clearly individuated characters and realistic body types. A great beginning to a fun new series." –Francesca Goldsmith

2012 Texas Maverick Graphic Novels Reading List: "I Love Him to Pieces"

"I Love Him to Pieces has been named to the Texas Library Association’s 2012 Texas Maverick Graphic Novels Reading List!

The complete list can be found here:
http://www.txla.org/groups/Maverick."

Thanks, guys! And I'll forgive you for not getting my last name right (hardly anyone ever does).

"I Love Him to Pieces" Review: Kirkus Reviews (March 15)

Yeah, so it's already been 8 months since "I Love Him to Pieces" came out, and it never ocurred to me before to post the reviews I've been getting about it on this blog. Better late than never, right? I'll be posting them seperately, or it will be confusing.

The following review appears in the March 15 issue of Kirkus Reviews:

I LOVE HIM TO PIECES
Author: Tsang, Evonne
Illustrator: Görrissen, Janina

Review Date: March 15, 2011
Publisher:Graphic Universe
Pages: 128
Price ( Hardcover ): $29.27
Price ( Paperback ): $9.95
Price ( e-book ): $21.95
Publication Date: April 1, 2011
ISBN ( Hardcover ): 978-0-7613-6004-9
ISBN ( Paperback ): 978-0-7613-7079-6
ISBN ( e-book ): 978-0-7613-7185-4
Category: Fiction
Series: My Boyfriend is a Monster
Volume: 1

"Two teenagers fall for each other as a zombifying fungus stalks St. Petersburg, Fla., in this tongue-in-cheek romance. Paired up in school as an egg’s assigned “parents,” shy übernerd Jack Chen and irrepressible baseball star Dicey Bell feel a mutual draw—which is why they’re together, cutting class one day, when a sudden outbreak of mutant fungus turns nearly everyone into mindless, half-decayed killers. Though Dicey’s skill with a bat comes in handy for cranking up the body count, escape becomes an urgent priority when Jack is bitten. His scientist parents have a possible cure—but can they and the young fugitives hook up in time? Though so slow to get off the mark that the zombie action doesn’t even start until halfway through, the plot accelerates nicely thereafter, culminating in a wild drive in a tinkling ice-cream truck through crowds of slavering attackers. So vivacious are Jack and Dicey in Görrissen’s black-and-white art that readers will forgive the indistinct depictions of violence and the untidy way dialogue balloons spill over into adjacent panels. Simultaneously published with volume two, a tale with a different cast and setting titled Made for Each Other, written by Paul D. Storrie and illustrated by Eldon Cowgur. A hoot from opening salvo (“JACK CHEN, YOU’RE THE FATHER OF MY BABY!”) to closing clinch." (Graphic novel. 11-13)

Kairi Volume 1 Cover

Somehow I never posted the cover illustrations for Kairi, at least not in a decent size or by themselves, so I'll be adding them now, despite the fact that I did them years ago. I still like them, anyway. They're from 2008.

So here are the front and back illustrations for volume 1.

Aikido Inu

Just a little Illustrator practice. First thing I've ever completely rendered in that program.

This image is available for sale in my ToonPool Shop as a license-free download (for professional use) and on t-shirt!


Related illustrations:

Demonios de Tasmania / Tasmanian Devils

The world needs more Tasmanian Devil drawings. Because they're just that cute. And very much under-represented. They deserve more love. They hiss and scream, and bite through bones, and are just so very adorable. =D

And their paws are like tiny little hands! How cute is that?

I hope it's not too dark on your screens and you can tell where one ends and the other one starts. ^^"


[Edit:] I'm proud to say this image has been used in a campaign by "The Last Stand" against deforestation of Tasmania's forests. :) 


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New project preview

Here's a little preview for the current project I'm working on. Like the last one ("I Love Him to Pieces") it belongs to the series "My Boyfriend is a Monster".

"I Love Him to Pieces" copies

Yay! I got my copies of my new comic, coming out in april 2011.
There's a soft- and a hardcover version, both are really beautiful and printed on very good, semi-glossy paper in an outstanding quality.

You can get it here.